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Bob Sall, of Paterson, N.J., set a world record for a one mile track on Langhorne Speedway, in Pennsylvania on May 21, 1938. He drove the mile in 35...

Cleveland parents brought their children along with them as they stood in a line several blocks long waiting for their portions of a federal surplus o...

French recruits in the French Army leaving for their barracks on May 3, 1938 at Nancy, Strasbourg, France. (AP Photo)

Gasoline, food, steel helmets, horses, rice, officers' pistol and sword, and a new gadget which the Reds did not know was a grenade-thrower, are shown...

A German Navy band march and play to celebrate Hitler's birthday on Rhinestrasse, Vienna, on April, 20, 1938. (AP Photo)

Militant Poland, becoming increasingly fascist, occasionally is swept by Anti-Jewish Riots. Here, Warsaw police were attempting to cope with an out bu...

Part of the large military parade on show on the racecourse, during Derby Week, at Hamburg, Germany, on March 26, 1938. (AP Photo)

General Chiang Kai-Shek on his favorite white horse Charger on March 18, 1938. (AP Photo)

The three leaders of the Washington Senators, left to right: Mike Martin, Trainer, coach Bucky Harris, and owner Clark Griffith looked the boys over w...

Arch Ward of the Chicago Tribune sports staff, shown on Feb. 5, 1938. (AP Photo/HLK)

Photo shows Nanking man had been hacked along the throat allegedly by Japanese bayonet on Feb. 5, 1938. (AP Photo)

A Chinese civilian reportedly chopped upon by a Japanese soldier with his sword. The latter failed to sever this man???s head from his body and the Ch...

This Nanking boy had been manhandled, being cut about the face and burned by something inflammable being thrown upon him on Feb. 5, 1938. (AP Photo)

Streets piled high with sandbags and littered with debris greeted Japanese forces entering Nanking, former capital of Nationalist China, following a t...

Japanese invaders found this portion of Nanking deserted when they forced their way into the city but the work of the Chinese in setting fire to the...

This is Jean Schwartz, a New York dress finisher who has been out of a job for 18 weeks. She appeared at the New York City Post Office, Dec. 27, 1937,...

The dead litter the streets in Nanking, China, following the Japanese raid on this city, leaving it in utter devastation, Dec. 14, 1937. (AP Photo)

One of the roads leading to Nanziang in the Shanghai war zone which was shelled to shambles during the attack on the important railroad junction is ch...

Washington Redskins back Cliff Battles (20) scores against the New York Giants in 1937 game played on Dec. 5, 1937 at the Polo Grounds. Redskins, with...

Chairman Mao Tse-Tung is shown writing his work

G.B. Stern, the English novelist, and W. Somerset Maugham, famed English playwright and novelist, are shown in the lobby of the Globe Theater in Londo...

Chicago Bears back Beattie Feathers (48) is about to be tossed for loss by Giant Dale Burnett in game played on Oct. 31, 1937 at the Polo Grounds. Bea...

Judith Allen, the screen actress who set a value of $2,000,000 on the love of Jack Doyle, the Irish Tenor heavyweight, in a Balm Suit against Mrs. Del...

Crews of German submarines listen to a speech from a senior office, in the port of Kiek, on Oct. 5, 1937, before putting to sea on exercise. (AP Photo...

Judith Allen, film actress, filed suit at Los Angeles, on Oct. 1, 1937 against Mrs. Delphine Dodge Godde, motor car heiress, for $2,000,000 for aliena...

Here is a close-up study of film actress Judith Allen, shown on Oct. 1, 1937 who puts a figure of $2,000,000 on love. She asked that amount in a Balm...

Here is a close-up study of film actress Judith Allen, shown on Oct. 1, 1937 who puts a figure of $2,000,000 on love. She asked that amount in a Balm...

The federal office building in Seattle at first and Marion Sts, Sept. 24, 1937. This building was opened, March 1, 1933 and cost $2,375,000. (AP Photo...

General shot of Seattle business district looking South toward Mt. Rainier in upper right background in Seattle, Washington, Sept. 24, 1937. (AP Photo...

This photo was made at airport looking north west into the business section of downtown Seattle, Sept. 22, 1937, showing the two train stations: King...

Aerial view of Seattle's business district and of the waterfront in Seattle, Sept. 22, 1937. (AP Photo)

Aerial view of Seattle's business district and of the waterfront in Seattle, Sept. 22, 1937. (AP Photo)

This war-ravaged scene is Chapei, the native quarter in Shanghai, which has been subjected to terrific shelling by both Chinese and Japanese guns, sho...

A Chinese mother in Nantao, Shanghai's most congested district, is shown as she sits stolidly amid wreckage which once was her home, Sept. 16, 1937. H...

Nearly 100,000 Nazi stormtroopers are gathered at Luitpold Arena to listen to a speech by Third Reich Fuhrer Adolf Hitler on

Rows of Hitler Youth are drawn up in rows to listen to a speech at the special Hitler Youth Camp, in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 6, 1937. (AP Photo)

Chinese search the debris of their homes for anything that might have survived the attack from the invading Japanese, July, 1937. This sector of the n...

To celebrate the founding of the city 700 years before, Dr. Julius Lippert, Mayor of Berlin, left, speaks to an audience in the Town Hall, Berlin, on...

The two little daughters of King George and Queen Elizabeth, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, center, are shown with several of their friends o...

The Marco Polo Bridge is guarded by a soldier of the the 29th Army, which held out valiantly against the Japanese, but was finally routed, July 1937....

More than 1,200 future Italian youth leaders and members of the Italian Fascist sports academy, perform in the Deutschland Hall, in Berlin, on June 16...

The German battleship

This is a view of the new $100,000 air conditioned and ultra-modernly equipped teamsters union headquarters and auditorium in Seattle, June 10, 1937 t...

Still in their coronation robes of ermine and their crowns King George VI, right and Queen Elizabeth, left, step to a balcony of Buckingham Palace wit...

With the Duke of Gloucester in the foreground, this glimpse of the peers in a bank of ermine during the coronation reveals the ancient pageantry which...

At the conclusion of the colorful coronation ceremony, King George VI leads the majestic procession from Westminster Abbey on May 18, 1937 in London....

This picture taken from the top of Admiralty Arch shows the State Coach in which the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are riding down the mall enro...

The royal coach, bearing King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, circles Victoria Monument just outside the gates to Buckingham Palace as the March to Wes...

King George VI is shown as he received the blessing during the coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, on May 12, 1937 in London. (AP Photo)

Shown in an undated photo is a scene like this when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth rode to Westminster Abbey to be crowned in 1937 will be repeate...